Shortbow

The Shortbow is Tinkers' Construct's replacement for the vanilla bow. It works essentially like a normal bow: you hold right click to charge, release to fire, and it uses arrows. However, you can make it from different materials and customize it with modifiers, like any other Tinkers' Construct tool, and you can also customize the arrows.

Crafting

You can make a Shortbow in a Tool Station by assembling different parts, like any other tool. It is made with two Tool Rods and a Bowstring.

The material properties listed when making the parts does not correspond quite correctly to the Shortbow, as it uses a largely different relevant stat set, as listed below. As a note, all stats listed are using the default Bowstring, and the other two strings may yeild different results.

Material Stats

MATERIAL

Draw Speed

Arrow Speed

Durability

Misc.

Blue Slime

1.2 seconds

1.2 x

576

Green Slime

1.2 seconds

1.2 x

1,536

Pig Iron

1.2 seconds

1.2 x

384

Tasty, Reinforced 1

Bone

1.5 seconds

1 x

192

Wood

1 second

1 x

384

Cactus

1 second

1 x

384

Jagged

Paper

0.62 seconds

0.5 x

48

Writable

Thaumium

2.4 seconds

1.2 x

576

Thaumic

Ardite

2.4 seconds

1.2 x

960

Stonebound

Manyullyn

2.4 seconds

1.2 x

1,536

Copper

2.4 seconds

1.2 x

384

Iron

2.4 seconds

1.2 x

576

Reinforced 1

Alumite

2.4 seconds

1.2 x

768

Reinforced 2

Bronze

2.4 seconds

1.2 x

576

Reinforced 1

Cobalt

2.4 seconds

1.2 x

1,152

Reinforced 2

Steel

2.4 seconds

1.2 x

768

Reinforced 2

When mixing 2 different tool rods in to 1 shortbow, the numeric stats (Draw Speed, Arrow Speed multiplier, and Durability) are always the average of the two materials' base values (plus or minus 2 hundredths of a second of draw speed) with the exception of the following materials, listed in the table below: Stone, Flint, Netherrack, and Obsidian. When mixing these with any material other than these, the draw speed is far worse than the average of the two materials' stats would indicate.

MATERIAL

Draw Speed

Arrow Speed

Durability

Misc.

Stone

0.8 seconds

0.2 x

10

Stonebound

Flint

0.8 seconds

0.2 x

10

Stonebound

Netherrack

0.8 seconds

0.2 x

10

Stonebound

Obsidian

0.8 seconds

0.2 x

10

Reinforced 3

Modifiers

Modifiers can be used on the Shortbow normally, however most apply to it the same way that they apply to a tool, like a Hatchet, rather than how they would to a weapon, as a Longsword. Only a few directly impact the shortbow's main function:

Any damaging effects should be applied to the arrow, rather than the bow. Even then, however, the following arrow modifiers do not work when the arrow is fired from a bow (only when it is used in melee):